... Under certain conditions, like those in the nucleus of a QSO, all atoms can be made to emit light at particular wavelengths. ... If that source is approaching the observer, the wave is squashed up onto itself making the wavelength shorter. ... This is redshift. ... You can see how the section of the QSO spectrum which we observe changes with redshift. ... We then see how far we had to slide the observed spectrum along the scale to make it match and that is the objects redshift. ... The 2QZ team . ...

... SUPER RATIO . ... On this page I will present the most important (on my opinion) idea on Intellegence Life in the Universe . ... On the problem of the Super Ratio in astrophysics" . ... As a matter of fact, this is the main problem of the modern natural science. ... Here I shall try to speak about the most important problem of the modern natural science, the problem which is undoubtedly, of more importance than discovery of Blacks Holes, creation of Grand Unification Theory or Artificial...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

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LIPSKIY-RODIONOVA' LUNAR ANTIPODES AS PRECURSORS OF A REGULAR WAVE PLANETOLOGY G.G.Kochemasov IGEM of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia kochem@igem.ru / Fax: (009)(095)230 21 79 The first observations of the lunar far side allowed to compare it with the near side and draw very important conclusions in the very beginning of planetary studies based on spacecrafts. ... Celestial bodies are dichotomic. ... The concept of celestial bodies includes Sun (a star) as one of them. ...

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... Precisely one month ago, on 11 July 2009, the last active area of the new solar cycle disappeared from the surface of the Sun. Over the 30 days following this, neither observers on Earth nor devices in space have been able to detect the emergence of any sunspots. ... Therefore, it seems that our star has once again returned to a state of deep solar "winter", following several sparks of activity in May-June 2009. ... To date, this period has lasted 30 days. ...

X-RAY BURSTS OBSERVED WITH JEM-X S. Brandt, J. Chenevez, N. Lund, C. Budtz-JЬrgensen, N.J. Westergaard Danish National Space Center, Juliane Mariesvej 30, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark, E-mail: sb@spacecenter.dk ABSTRACT We report on the search for X-ray bursts in the JEM-X X-ray monitor on INTEGRAL during the first two years of operations. ... DATA ANALYSIS More than 350 type I X-ray bursts were found. ... One source, IGR J17254-3257, previously not known to be an X-ray burster, was found [6]. ... Fig. ...

Every country, regularly participating in IAO has to organize National Astronomy Olympiad (NAO). ... We pointed them as " highly recommended ", " recommended " or (if the way is not optimal, but possible) " possible way " before the paragraph or item. ... The number of stages of the National Olympiad from one to five plus possible training camp. ... Each stage is a separate regional olympiad, its winners and prize-winners participate in the next stage, - up to the final (national) stage. ... Stage . ...

Databases (NSDC) of the Natural Planetary Satellites. ... NSDC: Database of astrometric observations of Natural Planetary Satellites . ... They are thoroughly looking for observations in different sources, creating their owndatabases which are then mostly inaccessible to other researchers. ... In the file "content" with explications, the reference is given to the data source as well as the bibliographic reference. ... Data sources. ... Why a specific bibliographic database for Natural satellites? ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Need All Claims Be Tentative? ... Here is an issue: does a particular representation correctly match the pattern it is claimed to represent went viewed by method 'x', within the limits of precision given by the definitions of the original pattern, the representation, and the method of viewing (x)? ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Tour Objects Tours can be created using objects from within the Autostar database or a user can enter in different objects (such as a newly discovered comet). ... Automatic Mode: As the user advances to each object, the title of the object appears on line 1 of the display while its descriptive text automatically starts scrolling across line 2. ... For example: STAR "Rigel" LANDMARK az alt "title" "description" Enter the azimuth (az) for the desired object in the following format xxxdxxmxxs. ...

... Solar Data: f.e. X-ray . Night Sky Live . ... Heavens-Above: Sky chart, Satellites, Iridiums and astronomical objects For Moscow For SAO Baksan . ... ESO-MIDAS page . ... Tutorials for Astronomy . ... Asteroid and Comet Hazard . ... Observable Comets: This page lists links to orbital elements and ephemerides of (potentially) observable comets. ... Leonid page - a lot of information for years Comets and Meteor Showers . The American Meteor Society . ... North American Meteor Network Home Page . ...

Target: Various bright stars Date: Night of 2011-01-03 - 2011-01-04 Time: See Unix timestamp in file name Telescope: CDK125 Camera: Nikon D3s Filters: None Exposure time: Various - see file name Observer: John Kielkopf Processing: John Kielkopf Images are jpgs from the camera rotated in Gimp to put N up and W to the right. If the exact time for an image is needed, extract it from the timestamp in the file name. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

... Go to This section of the glossary . ... APHELION : The point in a planet's orbit where it is farthest from the sun. ... It melts at 83.95 K, and boils at 87.45 K. Many people don't realize that argon makes up a full 1% of our atmosphere, while carbon dioxide is only a fraction of a percent of our atmosphere. ... COMET: An object moving about the sun in an eccentric orbit and composed of materials which, on warming up near the sun, form a "tail" which always points away from the sun. ...

apomask -- Create an apodizing mask image with zero background and a circular central mask with rounded off edge apomask output xdim ydim radius sigma k xpos ypos . output = "" [image] . ... The X dimension of the input image. ydim = 512 [integer] . The Y dimension of the input image. radius = 12.0 [real] . The radius of the central disk of the output image which is to be set to one. sigma = 2.0 [real] . The sigma of the roll-off region around the central disk. k = 0.5 [real] . ...

Participants about project . ... makes the world a welcoming place. ... we see it shared by those who love it. ... us more aware of our own community when we shared it . with the schools around the world. ... pleased my students chose to share the feelings of . ... Our town cannot grow much as it is like an island with . other communities growning around it. ... diverse, with many Mexican people recently adding to . ... Our town is old and the new City Building looked a bit . ... city. ...

... VaST is a software tool for finding variable objects on a series of astronomical images. ... VaST performs object detection and aperture photometry using SExtractor on each image, cross-matches lists of detected stars, performs magnitude calibration with respect to the first (reference) image and constructs a lightcurve for each object. ... VaST FITS image viewer ./pgfv . ... Part I" PZP, vol. ... K. V. Sokolovsky, S. A. Korotkiy; "New Variable Stars Discovered by the NMW Survey" PZP, vol. ...